A book’s title and cover design are often the first impression it makes—and in a crowded market, first impressions matter. These elements are not just decorative; they’re strategic, emotional, and in many ways, the most important tools we have to get a reader to pick up a book.
A compelling book cover does more than look good: it reflects the story, genre, and tone within, creating an authentic experience for the reader. By blending graphic design with branding principles, authors and designers can make covers that resonate and build anticipation.
In recent years, a trend has emerged: YA horror books are pulling visual inspiration directly from horror film posters. The result? Covers that feel instantly familiar to fans of the genre, but also fresh and layered when seen through a literary lens.
Therefore, finding a way to weave each individual team member’s unique skills and abilities towards that common goal is where the real result begins to shine. A collaborative team culture must be fostered, and encouraging team members to share ideas, speak honestly, and provide helpful criticism is invaluable. An openness between all members on a team and that shared common goal—even though there may be different assignments and different skills or abilities—will create a team that works together through their own great talents.
In the book production process, every task is meant to build on one another, and making sure your work stays integrated throughout the project will result in a strong book launch. In this blog I want to focus on review requests and how they incorporate all of the work done before in the project and build a strong platform for the work to come after.
Until publishers adapt to the usage of queer BISAC codes, we will never be able to measure the true extent of queer literature’s popularity, which is not only detrimental to accurate sales analysis, but also to the queer community itself. Queer literature has long existed in the margins—published only by independent presses, relegated to “special interest” bookstores, and so on. But with the genre’s significant and longstanding popularity, as well as its movement into the general public’s eye, there is no reason for it to remain on the sidelines.
Here is an overview of library resources and programs which might be relevant to you, a person concerned with books, that you may not already be aware of.
As a reader, I never gave much thought to how book descriptions were written. If pushed, I might have guessed that they were written by the author, or maybe the […]
In June 2023, the European Union introduced the EU Deforestation Regulation, a sweeping replacement for the EU Timber Regulation that had been in place for the previous decade. While the […]
Now that I’m one year into the book publishing program at Ooligan, I can clearly see a disconnect between what writers talk about among each other and the publishing world. This is especially true when it comes to writing “rules” that circulate in writing circles and on all the writing-related hashtags.